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I may also mention that from some larve taken last year about Camachgouran, 
I have reared, amongst other common species, one of each of the following : 1’. cra- 
tegi, 8. illustraria, and F. conspicuata.—THomas Hurcutnson, Grantsfield, Leomin- 
ster, 9th September, 1871. 
Captures of Lepidoptera at Rannoch.—During wy stay of six months at the 
above locality I managed to take Dasydia obfuscata, Psodos trepidaria, Cidaria reti- 
culata, Fidonia pinetaria, Coremia munitata, Noctua sobrina, Teniocanpa gothicina, 
Aplecta occulta, Hadena rectilinea, Anorta melanopa, Scopula alpinalis, Scoparia 
alpina, Crambus ericellus, C. myellus, S. irriguana, and many other, all of which 
have been handed over to Mr. E. G. Meek, who employed me to collect.—J. War- 
RINGTON, September 11th, 1871. 
Notes on the Lepidoptera of South Wales.—As very little appears to be known 
about the Lepidoptera of South Wales, notes on some of the species noticed, during 
a few days’ visit in the middle of June, this year, may interest the readers of the 
E.M.M. For obvious reasons I have not mentioned the exact localities; but all 
the species named in my list were taken in sub-province 16 of Mr. Jenner Fust’s 
paper on “ Distribution,” though many of them have not been previously recorded 
from that district. It will be seen that some rather good things have “turned up.” 
L. Acis: of this rare species I was fortunate in capturing six specimens, four 
of which were in first-rate condition. I kept one pair on the chance of obtaining 
ova, but did not succeed. 
The male is a handsome insect on the wing, somewhat resembling a blue var. 
of the female Alewis, though it is more richly coloured ; bnt I do not think anyone, 
after once seeing it on the wing, would let Acis pass unrecognised. Itis extremely 
local, and I do not wonder at its not having been oftener met with. If once its 
few remaining localities be known, I am afraid it will very soon become extinct, 
The cause of its rarity in this country is, I have no doubt, to be found in the fact 
that the ova and young larve are destroyed by the haymakers. 
Zygena lonicere and filipendule, Lithosia mesomella, Ephyra porata, punctaria, 
and one fine 2 orbicularia, Macaria notata and alternata (one fine specimen of the 
latter), Lomaspilis marginata, Emmelesia affinitata and decolorata, Eupithecia casti- 
gata, and Euclidia glyphica, all occurred on the wing, and of Chesias obliquaria, we 
took both larvz and perfect insects at the same time and place. 
Sugar did not produce much on the only evening I had a chance of trying it. 
Miana furuncula, Grammesia trilinea (var. bilinea), and Rusina tenebrosa, were the 
only Noctwe that took the bait. 
C. duplaris was not uncommon on the wing, but seemed to ignore the supper 
that we had prepared for it. 
I returned home from my first entomological trip to Wales, very well satisfied 
_ with my captures. Should any enterprising collector chose to thoroughly work west 
and central Wales, he will, depend upon it, be rewarded by adding some interesting 
novelties to our lists. The country which has of late years produced Xylina con- 
formis and Eromene ocellea, must have other good things in store for future workers. 
What have become of Mniophila cineraria and Valeria oleagina, both of which are 
said to have been taken in Wales?—ALFreD H. Hupp, Stapleton Lodge, Bristol, 
14th September, 1871. 
